👋 Hello

I am a lead data scientist at the FD Mediagroep, where I lead a team of four data scientists on the award winning BNR SMART Radio, and FD’s SMART Journalism projects. I obtained my PhD in Information Retrieval at ILPS (at the University of Amsterdam) in 2017 under supervision of prof. dr. Maarten de Rijke.

Another dear colleague abandoning ILPS, another thesis cover! This time it’s Anne Schuth, who wrote a little book on the latest thing on the internet; Search Engines that Learn from Their Users. Get it over at anneschuth.nl!

So Dr. Maria-Hendrike Peetz successfully defended her PhD thesis today! (Congrats, Dr. Peetz!). The cover is made by me (click for PDF), and we added fancy UV-spot glossy ripples, which are awesome. On top of that, during the defense, Max Welling from Hendrike’s committee asked a (“warmup”-) question about the cover :-). Such joy.